You Are Here Too
  • Holly Bates 'House of Whoreship' 2022. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Nick Breedon 'Woah I'm Kind of Hyper' 2022-3 and 'Fantasy Sword' 2022-3. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Nick Breedon 'Vaccines Made Me Gay' 2020-2. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Scott Redford 'Urinal (Fortitude Valley 8)' 2001, and Luke Roberts 'Estocada (Auto-da-fe)' c.1991. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Yangamini 'Mapurtiti Nonga: Evil Ass Dreaming' 2024-5. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Gin Manik 'Exile to the Coastal Fort I' 2024, 'A Whole Night and the Following Day' 2024, 'Are You Catholic?' 2024. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Alexis Kanatsios 'Submission Drawings' 2023-5 and 'Substitutor (Behaviour d1 and d2)' 2023. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

  • Alexis Kanatsios 'Submission Drawings' 2023-5.

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You Are Here Too

12 April–29 June 202512 Apr–29 Jun 2025

You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first institutional group exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during the height of the AIDS crisis.

Thirty-three years later, this new show examines the evolution of LGBTQI+ expression in Australia, showcasing works that present queer desire as ‘amorphous, fluid, temporal, retreating, explicit, abstracted, and political’. It emphasises First Nations and trans experiences, noting that these can’t be contained by the narratives that dominated queer history and culture in previous generations. The featured artists are Holly Bates, Nick Breedon, Alexis Kanatsios, Gian Manik, and Yangamini, with performances by Crystal Love, Leen Rieth, and others.

The show has been curated by Kink, as adjunct curators at the Institute of Modern Art. The show is complemented by a video program.

 

Content Warning: This exhibition contains coarse language and sexual themes.

 

Artists
Curated By
  • Kink
Curator Bio

Kink is a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art. It comprises art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath, artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis, and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh. Its members are based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Naarm/Melbourne, and Gadigal/Sydney. Kink are adjunct curators at the Institute of Modern Art.


The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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